<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P>Hello all,</P><P><BR></P><P>Has anyone work with Ta2O5 ? I have some problems with that compound. I am working with delta modification [1]. First of all energy gap is too small. It is about 1.5 eV, however for amorfous Ta2O5 experiments say it is about 4 eV. It is too big underestimation of Eg. </P><P>Moreover I have not find defect level in 14, 42, 168 atoms supercells with oxygen vacancy in the center of the cell.</P><P>I have made LDA+U calculations. I found that Hubbard U is about 2 eV for supercell with 42 atoms, however no changes happened. Eg has slightly increased but no defect level appeared.</P><P>Ta has 3 d electrons and is described by ultrasoft pseudopotential. I took it from pwscf.org. It might be problem in the potential. What do you think about all of these?</P><P><BR></P><P>[1] <SPAN lang="EN-US" style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>A. Fukumoto and K. Miwa,
Phys. Rev. B 55, 11 155 (1997)</SPAN></P></td></tr></table><br>